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Operating Systems SCO Power off on SCO 5.0.6 Post 303014283 by jgt on Thursday 8th of March 2018 01:14:37 PM
Old 03-08-2018
Read the following section of the init command man page.
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0                                                                            
       Shut the machine down so it is safe to remove the power.              
       Have the machine remove power if it can. This state can be            
       executed only from the console.                                       
       Note that init 0 should not be used if you have a USB                 
       keyboard attached to the console. During an init 0, the               
       USB stack gets shut down and the system then waits for a              
       keyboard keypress interrupt before rebooting. Since USB is            
       gone, there's no way for a keypress on the USB keyboard to            
       get serviced, and the system does not respond. If this                
       occurs, you must either press the hardware reset button or            
       power cycle the system.                                               
1                                                                            
       Put the system in single-user mode. Unmount all file                  
       systems except the root filesystem. All user processes are            
       killed except those connected to the console. It is                   
       recommended that this state be executed only from the                 
       console.                                                              
2                                                                            
       Put the system in multiuser mode. All multiuser                       
       environment terminal processes and daemons are spawned.               
   5                                                                            
          Stop the UNIX system and go to the firmware monitor.                  
   6                                                                            
          Stop the UNIX system and reboot to the run-level defined              
          by the initdefault entry in /etc/inittab.

The above is from the 6.0.0 documentation but is backwards compatible to Xenix.

---------- Post updated at 01:14 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:09 PM ----------

If you are unable to power down the system, because the cmos does not support it, you may be able to create a workaround using a UPS that you can send a "power off in 5 minutes" command to just prior to shutting down the SCO system.
 

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DRACUT-SHUTDOWN.S(8)						      dracut						      DRACUT-SHUTDOWN.S(8)

NAME
dracut-shutdown.service - unpack the initramfs to /run/initramfs SYNOPSIS
dracut-shutdown.service DESCRIPTION
This service unpacks the initramfs image to /run/initramfs. systemd pivots into /run/initramfs at shutdown, so the root filesytem can be safely unmounted. The following steps are executed during a shutdown: o systemd switches to the shutdown.target o systemd starts /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/dracut-shutdown.service o dracut-shutdown.service executes /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-initramfs-restore which unpacks the initramfs to /run/initramfs o systemd finishes shutdown.target o systemd kills all processes o systemd tries to unmount everything and mounts the remaining read-only o systemd checks, if there is a /run/initramfs/shutdown executable o if yes, it does a pivot_root to /run/initramfs and executes ./shutdown. The old root is then mounted on /oldroot. /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99shutdown/shutdown.sh is the shutdown executable. o shutdown will try to umount every /oldroot mount and calls the various shutdown hooks from the dracut modules This ensures, that all devices are disassembled and unmounted cleanly. To debug the shutdown process, you can get a shell in the shutdown procedure by injecting "rd.break=pre-shutdown rd.shell" or "rd.break=shutdown rd.shell". # mkdir -p /run/initramfs/etc/cmdline.d # echo "rd.break=pre-shutdown rd.shell" > /run/initramfs/etc/cmdline.d/debug.conf # touch /run/initramfs/.need_shutdown AUTHORS
Harald Hoyer SEE ALSO
dracut(8) dracut 09/12/2013 DRACUT-SHUTDOWN.S(8)
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